14
Jul
Liz Hurley’s TV Dinners (Minus the Piglet, pretty please?)
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Actress Elizabeth Hurley might be bringing out a ‘healthy’ and ‘low fat’ organic range of pre-packaged meals, but we’re not convinced they’re up to scratch. This is because the meals contain meat – not our idea of healthy and I’m pretty sure the 15 calves, 34 piglets and 50 lambs she’s got in her back-garden would like to avoid the slaughterhouse too.
In an interview with Red magazine, she talks about hand-raising one of the piglets destined for the dinner-plate: “I have to swaddle it, like a baby, lie it backwards and feed it with a bottle. It’s absolutely divine.” That whole scene I’m reading kinda freaks me out a bit. She wouldn’t kill a baby, I’m sure, so why another being that she treats like a baby?
Our Special Projects Manager, Yvonne, has just sent her a letter. Here’s what she wrote:
“Here at PETA we were excited to hear about your plans to launch a new line of organic products and meals that are billed as “healthy” and “low-fat” – that is, until we learned that these meals will contain meat. Animal products, which are typically loaded with saturated fat and cholesterol, are far from being healthy. Won’t you please consider promoting a truly healthy, low-fat vegetarian diet?
A vegetarian diet not only reduces the risk of cancer, heart disease and numerous other life-threatening illnesses but is also a far kinder diet for animals who need not have their lives cut short to please our palates. Given the chance, the piglet you have affectionately described hand-rearing would grow into a curious and intelligent adult who is as smart, loyal and affectionate as your dog, Emily. Just as you would cringe at shipping Emily off to slaughter, you should also be reluctant to betray a pig whom you have cared for and befriended.
Please know that no matter however “lovely” his or her life might have been, no farmed animal – intensively reared or organic – goes willingly or fearlessly to slaughter. In the UK, animal slaughter is poorly regulated and plagued by abuse. Pigs are often insufficiently stunned, and many remain conscious throughout the entire slaughter process. They often wake up while they are “bleeding out” and are still conscious when they are plunged into boiling-hot water.
We urge you to allow the piglets, calves and lambs on your land to live out their natural lives in comfort and safety and join PETA in promoting a healthy vegetarian diet.”
Please think again before you kill that innocent piglet. You have a choice, but the animals in your farm don’t! No matter how you raise & kill animals, meat IS murder!